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101 " Without skipping a beat, Elizabeth replied, “I want to be a billionaire.” “Wouldn’t you rather be president?” the relative asked. "
― John Carreyrou , Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
102 " By late 2017, Theranos was running on fumes, having burned through most of the $900 million it raised from investors, much of it on legal expenses. "
103 " using stock buybacks to mask the bad results. By reducing the number of shares it had outstanding, buybacks could artificially raise a company’s earnings per share—the headline number investors focused on—even if its actual earnings fell. It was an old trick that astute Wall Street analysts versed in corporate sleights of hand saw right through. "
104 " If anything, it was Holmes who was the manipulator. One after another, she wrapped people around her finger and persuaded them to do her bidding. "
105 " A chemistry is performed so that a chemical reaction occurs and generates a signal from the chemical interaction with the sample, which is translated into a result, which is then reviewed by certified laboratory personnel.” Those sounded like the words of a high school chemistry student, not a sophisticated laboratory scientist. The New Yorker writer had called the description “comically vague.” When I stopped to think about it, I found it hard to believe that a college dropout with just two semesters of chemical engineering courses under her belt had pioneered cutting-edge new science. Sure, Mark Zuckerberg had learned to code on his father’s computer when he was ten, but medicine was different: it wasn’t something you could teach yourself in the basement of your house. "
106 " Her ambition was voracious and it brooked no interference. If there was collateral damage on her way to riches and fame, so be it. "
107 " Sunny was dressed as an Arab sheik. "
108 " a dermatologist named Sunil Dhawan to "
109 " the devil was in the details. "
110 " sycophants were promoted. "
111 " The presence of the same or similar delusional ideas in two persons closely associated with one another. "
112 " The fear of missing out was a powerful deterrent "
113 " employees, which now numbered more than one hundred, to the Thomas Fogarty Winery in Woodside. "
114 " December 15, 2014, issue, The New Yorker published a profile of Elizabeth. In "
115 " deposition testimony. "
116 " David Boies. "
117 " it became apparent to Shaunak that a little patch that could do all the things Elizabeth wanted it to do bordered on science fiction. It might be theoretically possible, just like manned flights to Mars were theoretically possible. But the devil was in the details. "
118 " rumpled "
119 " subsidiary. "
120 " He thought the chemical symbol for potassium was P (it’s K; P is the symbol for phosphorus)—a mistake most high school chemistry students wouldn’t make. "